Chicago’s Temple of Steel: South Works since 1882
13 minutes
In my childhood on summer days, when my mother took us to the shore of Lake Michigan at the 57th Street Beach, we could easily see the billowing plume...
Fishing for Sharks
by Miles Powell
17 minutes
Today, the most potent symbol for shark conservation is arguably that of a finned shark—staring out helplessly from black eyes with its appendages sli...
The Isthmus of Panama and the Knowledge Anthropocene
18 minutes
In the final chapter of Man and Nature, his landmark 1864 study of an earth transformed by human action, George Perkins Marsh looked ahead to a...Chernobyl
7 minutes
I grew up in a country that does not exist anymore—East Germany or the GDR. Perhaps this partially explains my interest in Eastern Europe and its envi...Encountering Ghost Species
by Cameron Muir
5 minutes
On Lord Howe Island, 600 kilometres off of Australia’s east coast, you can snorkel the world’s southernmost coral reef, clamber up a basalt mountain t...The Poor Woods of Northern Nigeria
13 minutes
I have loved trees since childhood. Mother said she was sitting under a mango tree when her water broke and I was to be born. She carried me as a baby...
Spaces of Living in Transformation:
Case Studies for Rethinking the Urban in Munich, Germany
by Urban Environments Initiative (UEI)
3 minutes
This set of videos captures the everyday sights, sounds, and sensations of two spaces of transformation in Munich, Germany. Produced for the Urban Env...Under Another Sky
2 minutes
The Indian village of Piplantri celebrates the birth of every newborn girl by planting 111 trees. In her new film, Under Another Sky, RCC alu...Watch and Act, Summer
6 minutes
At first, there are only a couple of photos. The usual places: The Guardian, Instagram, Facebook. I trace the fire as it creeps down and across...Pitching the Anthropocene: Global Media Work and the World to Come
8 minutes
From around the age of 15, I think, I had wanted to be a journalist, and in the pre-Amazon time before print publishing’s great data-driven reckoning ...Living on Coral Time: Debating Conservation in the Anthropocene
6 minutes
Coral scientists are dealing with an existential crisis and are divided between hope and despair in their approaches to coral conservation....Once Upon a Game Reserve: Sambisa and the Tragedy of a Forested Landscape
5 minutes
The Sambisa Forest, located in Borno State in northeast Nigeria, has become synonymous with Boko Haram terrorism. Boko Haram has waged a bloody war ag...